To Be A Cat
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published:2nd May '13
£7.99
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From the winner of the Blue Peter Award, this is a funny, dark and exciting story about what it's like to wake up as a cat!
From the bestselling author of A Boy Called Christmas, The Girl Who Saved Christmas, Father Christmas and Me and The Truth Pixie.
*'A clawed masterpiece' - Guardian*
Barney Willow's life couldn't get any worse.
From the bestselling author of A Boy Called Christmas, The Girl Who Saved Christmas, Father Christmas and Me and The Truth Pixie.
*'A clawed masterpiece' - Guardian*
Barney Willow's life couldn't get any worse. He's weedy, with sticky-out ears. Horrible Gavin Needle loves tormenting him. And evil headteacher Miss Whipmire seems determined to make Barney's existence a complete misery! Worst of all, Dad has been missing for almost a year - and there's no sign of him ever coming home.
Barney just wants to escape. To find another life. To be a cat, for example. A quiet, lazy cat. Things would be so much easier - wouldn't they?
A darkly funny and adventurous tale from multi-award-winning author Matt Haig.
A clawed masterpiece . . . A book about being comfortable in your own skin rather than someone else's fur -- Philip Ardagh * Guardian *
Darkly comic and richly rewarding . . . Shines with originality * Telegraph *
I loved To Be A Cat . . . Very funny and surprising -- John Boyne
Here is the black comedy that made Matt Haig's Shadow Forest so irresistible * The Times *
A terrific yarn * Independent on Sunday *
- Long-listed for Carnegie Medal 2013 (UK)
ISBN: 9780552564342
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm
Weight: 223g
320 pages